Those departments and agencies will continue to be staffed by "essential" employees who would work without pay until the shutdown ended. At midnight Friday, the federal government entered a partial shutdown, suspending funding for many agencies. More..

Turkey began reinforcing its positions on both sides of its border with Syria on Sunday, a Reuters witness said, as Ankara and Washington agreed to coordinate a US withdrawal from Syria. President Donald Tr...More..

Expect seasonably cool and calm days both Monday and Tuesday: mornings lows will start in the 30s, while afternoon highs will reach back into the 50s. Monday looks to be cloudy with a 60% chances of bringing so...More..

The shutdown comes after weeks of threats by Trump over border wall funding, according to the democrats . The partial government shutdown closed about a quarter of federal offices, affecting nine Cabinet-...More..

The withdrawal of the United States of troops from Afghanistan is Pakistan's diplomatic victory in the region and Kabul where the beleaguered government has been struggling to get a stronghold against the...More..

The career ethics official concluded there was no actual conflict of interest or personal relationship that would require Whitaker to recuse himself. Trump reportedly took Whitaker to task on why he wasn't do...More..

According to Trump, the two presidents discussed the fight against Daesh, mutual involvement in Syria as well as "the slow and highly coordinated pullout of US troops from the area". "This decision feeds the ...More..

Lord Ashdown was MP for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. Lord Ashdown was diagnosed with bladder cancer in October and passed away on Saturday (December 22nd...More..

The phone banks hearken back to how NORAD began its Santa Tracking mission in 1955 with an accidental phone call to the hotline in the command's operations center. 'In the event of a government shutdown, NO...More..

The wave destroyed hundreds of buildings and sent tourists and residents fleeing for their lives after it slammed into coastal areas around Indonesia's Sunda Strait late on Saturday. Saturday morning, the Ind...More..

The unidentified tree-climber made it between 15 and 20 feet off the ground prior to coming down "on his own accord", the statement said. Police rushed to the scene, closed off the adjacent area and dispatche...More..

Protesters threw rocks at officers and attempted to cross the police barricades cordoning off the area where Sanchez was meeting with his cabinet, hoping to approve a 22 percent increase of Spain's minimum wa...More..

The Austrian tabloid Kronenzeitung claimed that the shooting took place inside the local restaurant "Figlmüller", popular with tourists. The incident was unlikely related to terrorism as the Austrian authorit...More..

Berreth has family in that state, De Young said. But now - a month after she went missing - Frazee, her fiance, has been accused in her death, authorities said. The couple's daughter was in protective custody...More..

More than a dozen SU-27 and SU-30 fighter jets which Russian Federation is deploying to boost its air force, amid heightened tensions with Ukraine, arrived in Crimea on Saturday. HMS Echo is not expected to s...More..

Tonight and Tomorrow: Clouds increasing late tonight, allowing for temperatures to stay in the low 50s overnight. It will likely be too warm for any snow with both of these systems. St Stephen's Day and Thursd...More..

The "biggest obstacle to peace is the occupation of Afghanistan and bringing it to an end", the Taliban spokesman stressed after the negotiations, referring to the US -led global military mission. troops from A...More..

He said the "questions" concerned BBC coverage of events in Russia and in Syria, where the Russian military is backing President Bashar al-Assad's forces. She said that in her view Roskomnadzor will have to use...More..

Solicitor General Noel Francisco asked the Supreme Court to greenlight the regulations pending appeal because he said they are "designed to channel asylum seekers to ports of entry, where their claims can be ...More..

Francis vowed that, going forward, the Catholic hierarchy would never cover up or dismiss cases again and would "spare no effort to do all that is necessary to bring to justice whosoever has committed such crim...More..

With Trump's insistence on $5 billion for the wall and negotiations with Democrats in Congress far from a breakthrough, even a temporary measure to keep the government running while talks continued seemed out o...More..

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney is instructing agencies "to execute plans for an orderly shutdown", The Associated Press reports. He wrote that administration officials were "hopeful that this lapse ...More..

Earlier in the day, in stark contrast to the last few weekends, tourists strolled down the avenue near the Arc de Triomphe monument, holiday shoppers were out in force and the grandest of Parisian boulevards re...More..

A further 10 miners were injured in the explosion Thursday afternoon at the CSM mine near the town of Karvina. This story is developing. Poland's President Andrzej Duda declared Sunday a day of national mou...More..

The Kentucky Republican said he was "sorry to learn" that Mattis would be leaving the administration in late February. " Brett McGurk , who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015". "I am shak...More..

The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously approved the deployment of an advance team to begin monitoring the ceasefire, under the leadership of Cammaert, for an initial period of 30 days. Hodeida, the main...More..

Democrats and a number of Republicans have raised concerns about Trump's moves at the Justice Department, with a bipartisan group of U.S. senators renewing a push for legislation to protect the special counse...More..

Many employees and contractors will be paid up until that point in January because the government operates on a delayed pay schedule, said Ashley De Smeth, a spokeswoman for the American Federation of Governmen...More..

Biegun did not directly address North Korea's recent statement, which jarred with Seoul's rosier presentation of the North Korean position and could potentially rattle a fragile trilateral diplomacy to defuse...More..

The Paris prosecutor's office confirmed the arrest after French media reported that French citizen Peter Cherif, also known as Abu Hamza, had been arrested in Djibouti. It is noted that the detainee was a membe...More..